ICONIC: The Legend of Zelda will go down in history as one of the best games ever made

Thirty years ago, Nintendo released what would become arguably their greatest game series outside of that popular thing with the jumpy moustached plumber.

The tiny sprite was Link and his first outing on the Nintendo Famicon in 1986 changed the way everyone looked at adventure games from the moment he raised that wooden sword.

Since then, the series has spent three decades redefining the adventure genre and often pushing the boundaries for Nintendo hardware.

Like Mario, Sonic, Pac Man, Master Chief and several others, the pointy eared, green hooded figure of Link has etched himself into the history books and is without question one of the all-time great videogame characters.

So without further ado, let's celebrate the courageous hero once more with 30 incredible things you (probably) didn't know about that first game; The Legend of Zelda.

30 incredible things you (probably) didn't know about The Legend of Zelda